ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,258, issued on June 9, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Apparatuses and methods for facilitating an identification and scheduling of resources for reduced capability devices" was invented by Hongyan Lei (Plano, Texas) and Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data pertaining to a plurality of user equipment and a plurality of network resources, analyzing the data to identify that a first user equipment included in the plurality of user equipment is a reduced capability device, based on the analyzing, allocating ...